Whatever He Chooses Quotes by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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• Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will…
• On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of…
• A sacred pride should grip us of not being satisfied with the mediocre but to strive (for we can do it, if…
• To [man] it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills.
• Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil…
• The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.
• It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others…
• Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the…
• For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?
• But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not…
• But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a…
• At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself…

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